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WAGE PAYING MACHINE Filed July 22, 1929 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Aug. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES CHARLES LAURENCE BURDICK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND WAGE PAYING MACHINE Application filed July 22, 1929, Serial No. 380,217, and in Great Britain September 24, 1928.

This invention relates to wage-paying ma chines, and has for its principal object the application of improved mechanism to such machines.

5 In my British Patent No. 224,666, I described a machine capable of dealingwith coins and paper money, and the general disposition of the keyboard, coin reservoirs and magazines of clips for notes may be similar in the machine made in accordance with the present invention. But improved mechanism and other features for the more ready and convenient operation of the machine are now 1ncorporated.

' The invention comprises the improved features embodied in the preferred form of machine to be hereinafter described and claimed.

This machine is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, whereof Figure 1 is a sectional side vlew.

Figure 2 is a perspective view illustrating the operation ofone of the keys.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a deta l showing the operating handle and its assoclated parts. 7

Figure 4 is a further perspectlve View illustrating the operation of an alarm.

As illustrated, a sliding keybar 1 1s operated when a key 2 is pressed, and a cam face 3 on the keybar 1 moves laterally a selectorbar 4. The selector-bar has one or more abutments shown as the edge of a notch 5, each of which pushes into operative engagement with its pusher lever 16 a spring-held pusher l nk or bar 6, for each of enough coins or notes to make up the sum denoted by the key. In order to permit their lateral movement, the pusher bars 6 are loosely mounted on long pivots 6a carried by levers 15a; to be later described. Coins are held in cylinders 7 and notes in clips 8 as in' the previous patent referred to. o

It will be understood that each coin cylinder 7 contains coins of one denomination only and that the movement of the corresponding lever 16 and associated ejector slide 23 pushes out one coin only from that particular cylinder. Thus if 5 coins of a small denomination (say 5 cents or 5 centimes) are required to make up the value of the next C0111 (say the 5-cent or 5-centime piece) there will be required four cylinders such as 7 containing one-cent or one-centime pieces and to make up a total of (say) eight cents or centimes the appropriate key 2 and keybar 1 will move a selector bar 4 arranged with four notches 5, one of the notches engaging a five-cent or five-centime lever 16, and the other three each engaging a one-cent lever 16.

When a key 2 is depressed, a key-bar 1 is moved to the right in Figure 1, and with it there is moved a transverse rod 35 owing to the contact between the edge of a notch 35a in the key-bar. The movement of the rod 35 causes a bell crank lever 36 mounted upon a shaft 37 and connected atone end to the rod to rotate in an anti-clockwise direction, as seen in Figure 1. To the other end of the bell crank lever is pivoted, as at 36a, one end of a link 40, the other end of which is pivoted to a lever 38 which is pivotally supported at 39 and provided with a cam 34. The rotation of the bell crank 36 causes the link 40 to move upward and the cam 34 downward, the cam being thus withdrawn from a position which it normally occupies between a collar 42 on a spring pressed plunger 10 and a collar 41 carried on the shaft of an operating handle 9. The spring pressed plunger 10, which is carried on the driving shaft of the operating parts of the machine, is now free to slip into a hole 11 in the collar 41 when the pin and hole come into register during rotation of the operating handle 9, whereupon operative rotation begins. Through a connecting rod 12, a fixed bell crank lever 13, link 14 and crank 15, an operating shaft 17 is rotated through a part turn and returned. All pusher bars 6 are moved by the levers 15a attached to shaft 17 and each pusher-lever 16 that has 7 been engaged by the action of the selector bar is operated to eject a note or a coin and returned to initial position on the complete rotation of the handle (the shafts 17 having completed their oscillation), when the selector-bar 4 is reset through a link 18 pivoted at 18a to a collar on the driving shaft of the operating parts, and arranged for lost motion, the pusher bar returning to inoperative position owing to the spring 66 and the plunger 10 is disengaged so that further rotation is ineffective until a key is again operated.

Notes are held in clips 8, and after the con clusion of the operation of ejecting a note or notes a feed device 19 feeds up the appropriate number of clips 8 from a magazine for engagement by the ejectors on the next'operation. The feed device 19 and magazine form no part of the invention and are not described; they may, for example, be similar to those parts described in. my prior. Patent #1,833,558. As regards coins, the top coin 22 is pushed out by an ejector slide- 23 connected to the upper end of the pusher lever.

An alarm is operated as follows As the spring-pressed plungers 24 feeding coins to the top of the cylinders 7 rise, fixed arms 25 upon them rise also, and when only two or three coins are left in any cylinder, its arm 25 contacts with a pivoted bar 26 common to all cylinders and raises it. A linkoperated bell clapper 27 is raised at each operationby a link 28 loosely pivoted to a crank arm 29, the end of a link 28 pressing against a pin 30, and released by movement of link 28 against the pressure of a flat spring .46 away from pin 30 when cam 28a engages the bracket 28b normally to fall against a projection 31 connected with the said common bar 26; but on the raising of the bar the projection 31 swings downward and thereafter the clapper strikes the bell 32 at each operation, showing that one or more cylinders need filling. Separate alarms may be provided for copper, silver and also notes if desired.

A brake is operated as follows Each coin plunger 24 has a central hole 24a at its upper end. So long as coins are resent they hold up a pivoted stop arm 33 by a central projection-33a resting on the top coin, but after ejection of the last coin, or in case the coins j am and fail to rise, this arm falls, the projection falling into the hole .orspace. Thereafter the ejector is held, the

lever 16 striking the end of-arm 33 if any effort is made to eject the coin in question.

When a key 2 is depressed and the link 40 moved as previously described, the pivot 36a moves upwardly in a slot 45 provided in the link 18. During the operative rotation of the operating handle 9, the link 18 is first of all raised and then lowered again until the top of theslot 45 contacts with the pivot 36a, forcing it -downward,actuating the link 40 to bring the cam to aposition in which it may wedge itself between the collar 42 and the collar 41 to thereby withdraw the pin 10 from the hole 11. The movement of the pivot86a also causes the bellcrank to move so that the rod 35 returns the key-bars and keys to their normal position A knob or similar means at the end of the shaft 37 can be used for resetting the key and drawing back the plunger if a mistake is noted before operation of the handle has actually been carried out this conventional arrangement not requiring illustration. When the cam 34 wedges itself in between the collar 41 on the shaft of the operating handle and the collar 42 on the plunger 10, stop 43 on the lever 38 is brought into position to engage the abutment 44 carried by the collar on the driving shaft of the operating parts, so that rotation of the working parts is positively prevented.

Itwill beunderstood that while considerable detail has been given in the above description, this is not intended to necessitate the use of the precise forms described to the exclusion of equivalent arrangements.

1. A machine for delivering/money, comprising money reservoirs, setting keys a keybar operated by each of said setting e s, a selector bar=operated by each of said key ars pusher levers, pusher links whereof selected numbers from one upwards are moved laterally h each, of said selector bars and thereby broug, t'into operative engagement with its corresponding pusher lever, and drive trans-f mitting means to bring about the actual ejector movement of those of the pusher levers so engaged to eject money sufficient to make up the total denoted by the keys utilized in-the setting operation, together with drive operating means and means operated by the pressure ofany key toengage said drive operating means with said drive transmitting means at a predetermined point in its movement after said pressure. 7

2. A machine fordelivering money, comprising money reservoirs, settingkeys, a keybar operated by each of said setting keys, a selector bar operated by each of saidkeybars,

pusher levers, pusher links whereof selected numbers from one upwards aremoved laterally by each of said selector bars and thereby brought :into operative engagement with its corresponding pusher lever, and drive transmitting means to bring about the actual ejec tor movement of those of the pusher levers so engaged to eject money sufiicient to makeup the total denoted by the keys utilized in the setting operation, and thereafter to re-set the said setting keys, keyb'ars, selector bars,pusher links and pusher levers, together with a driveoperating means and means operated by the pressure of any key to engage said drive operating means with saiddrive transmittingmeans at a predetermined point in its movement, and means thereafter automatically disengaging said drive operating means from said drive transmitting means.

3.'.,A machine for delivering money, comprising money reservoirs, a spring pressed plunger carrying moneyupward in certain .ofthe reservoirs, an arm rising with each plunger, a stop member common to a plurality of reservoirs and adapted to be engaged when anyv of said arms reaches a predetermined height, an alarm member freed by the operation of said common member, and means to operate saicl alarm member to give an alarm upon each operation of the machine subseguent to the movement of the said stop mem- In testimony whereof I affix my signature. CHARLES LAURENCE BURDIOK. 

